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Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10348, 24 April 1911, Page 4

It would appear that the reception accordled to the Minister for Works in Masiterton was in striking contrast to the enthusiastic welcome extended to him at placies where them were prospecitive favours to tia asked for. In Masterton thei' deputation which waited on him was so sttnall in numlbers, that, had it not been for a s*ray politician or two who promiscuously dropped! in, the whole affair would harvie been a fiasco. The local mtorning journal wiairns the district that, if it wishes to secure favours from the Govenmenfc, it will require to treat Ministers "with just a little morS respect and dtetoency than it did tho 'Hon. R. MhKenzie."

The chief glory of the United States census that had yoti been revealed is Mrs Jane Mbnfe, of Jackson County, Kentucky, christened by the Bureau officials "The Grandest Mother in the World." 80 far as recorded, sho has .more living descendants than any other living woman. At the time of the remit census she was in splendid health, although 75 years had elapsed since firs* she helped her husband to clear a home in the Kentucky wilderness. $ha had fifteen children, of whom one 1 died. Then' children number 128, their graiid-children numibter 326, their great grand-children total 49, giving the old Womlain a, grand tofel of '518 descendants. "I glory in the fact," she said, "that despite my large family, nione of my people Was ever in anl asylum, reform stehool or prison.. They are all law-abiding and honesty They have.no quarrel with anyone."